Dmitry Gordeev
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 5
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One of the most disputable aspects of Russia's energy markets reform is the feasibility of achieving grid parity between different energy sources, of their so called inter-fuel competition level indices. Thus, in particular, one of the possible future components of the Russian market for natural gas can be the inter-fuel competition level reached by natural gas and coal in electric power generation. The results of a simplified analysis of current electric energy gen era on costs demonstrate that at present, natural gas has a huge competitive advantage over coal in electric power generation. At the same time, medium-term moderate growth of prices of natural gas in the domestic market will not result in a switchover, by electric power producers, from natural gas to coal.